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Female Head
late 4th-mid 2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)
white marble
(Ancient Greece )
(Ancient Greece )
This sculpture of a female head has long hair falling over her back and shoulder bound with a band and tied on top of her head.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Jean Mikas, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1923 [Brummer inv. no. P427]; I.N.P. Stokes, 1923, by purchase; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1925, returned [Brummer inv. no. P427]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Measurements
H: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
23.8